Basket mold



{No Model.)

' W. H. SNOW.

BASKET MOLD.

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IVILLIAM H. SN OIV, OF HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO THE MODERN TOBACCO BARN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BASKET-MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,114, dated April 7, 1891. Application filed August 28, 1890. Serial No. 363,314. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM H. SNOW, a citizen of the United States, residingat High Point, in the State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Basket-Molds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My iny'ention relates to apparatus for the manufacture of baskets; and it consists of a basket mold or block for the formation and manufacture thereon of a special construction of basket, for which I have applied for Letters Patent by application bearing even date herewith, and filed August 28, 1890, Serial No. 363,313.

The construction of and the mode in which my basket-mold is used in the manufacture of said basket is as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my basket mold. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View through the line 00 0c of Fig. 2, with a like sectional view of a basket in place thereon; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional View of a portion of the side of the mold intended to illus trate how the strips of wood forming the basket are shaped into form and secured by clinched nails between the inner and outer rims and to the inside cross brace-pieces.

In the manufacture of my improved basket, described in my aforesaid application bearing even date herewith, it is necessary to provide mechanical means for the manufacture of the same quickly and cheaply, and to that end I have devised the mold forming the subj eat-matter of my present application.

Upon a suitable stand, which, as shown in the drawings, may consist of four uprights A A, with side pieces B B, are firmly secured curved top-forming pieces E E-that is to say, with rounded top edges-the form of which is best shown in Fig. 4. Immediately beneath the same and passing through the upright side pieces B B are cross brace-pieces L L,which project through the side pieces B B at O O, and are recessed.vertically at c to receive a tapering pin or plug D. Resting upon the cross-pieces L L and extending to the angles formed by the forming-pieces E are forming-pieces F F, which are higher in the center than at their ends in order to give depth to the basket, and secured upon the same are sheet-iron or hard metallic pieces G G. E tending around the outside of the curved forming-pieces E are other sheet-iron or hard metallic pieces H secured thereto.

" The mold is intended for the construction of a shallow basket without separate handles, and of the form and character and mode of construction describedin my said application for patent of even date herewith.

The mode of operation of my mold is as follows: Inner and outer side rimsm m, of hoops of wooden strips, are placed around the mold, resting on the extension-pieces (land against the metallic surfaces H, and temporarily held in place by means of the tapering plugs D, which are inserted in the recesses c. The cross bracing-pieces of the basket are then placed upon the metallic pieces G and the ends brought down between the inner and outer strips m m, forming the rim of the basket, and nails driven between the said ends and the said rim-pieces m m to hold them together. Other strips of wood to form the bottom and sides of the basket are then platted in the usual manner and placed upon the cross bracing-pieces, which rest, as aforesaid, upon the metallic surfaces Got the cross forming-pieces F, and the ends of the platted strips are brought down by hand between the inner and outer rim-strips m m. Nails are then driven through the rim-strips m m and through the ends of the platted strips or 02, forming the bottom and sides of the basket, which nails are clinched against the metallic strips 11 H. The top-forming pieces F being elevated in their centers'and the side-forming pieces E (see Fig. 4) being slightly curved, as shown, give a form to the basket of a general curvature, forming a shallow rectangular basket with rounded sides and corners. The basket is completed by driving nails through such parts of the platted bottom pieces 02 n as rest upon and come in contact with theinside cross bracing-pieces of the basket, these nails being clinched upon the metallic surfaces G of the sheet-iron pieces secured to.

the cross-braces 1* F. The basket being linished, as stated, the binding-pins D are removed and the basket taken off the mold, which is then ready for a second operation, as described.

YVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. Abasket-mold consisting of a suitable supporting-frame, side-forming pieces E, projecting side pieces 0 immediately beneath the same, recessed vertically at c, and a suitble binding-pin to fit said recess, with cross for1ning-pieces F F, extending diagonally across the frame to the inner corners of the side-forming pieces E, the said'parts being constructed and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A basket-mold consisting of a suitable supporting-frame, vertically curved formingpieces E, provided with hard metallic outside lining l-I, projecting side pieces C immediately beneath the same, recessed vertically at c, and a binding-pin D to fit said recess, and cross forming-pieces F F, having hard metallic clinching-surfaces G, said parts being constructed and combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto atfixed my signature this 21st day ofJuly, A. D. 1890.

WILLIAM H. SNOW.

Witnesses:

O. O. WYsoNG, E. A. HASTEN. 

